Acts 7:53

And ye also have receaved a lawe by the ordinaunce of angels and have not kept it.

Tyndale New Testament

In The King James Version

Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it .

In Context

52Which of the prophetes have not youre fathers persecuted? And they have slayne them which shewed before of the commynge of that iust whom ye have now betrayed and mordred.

54When they hearde these thinges their hertes clave a sunder and they gnasshed on him with their tethe.

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Cross References

John 7:19Dyd not Moses geve you a lawe and yet none of you kepeth the lawe? Why goo ye aboute to kyll me?

Romans 2:23Thou reioysest in the lawe and thorow breakinge the lawe dishonourest God.

Galatians 6:13For they them selves which are circumcised kepe not the lawe: but desyre to have you circumcised that they myght reioyce in youre flesshe.

Matthew Henry on Acts 7:52-54

Stephen's Address. 51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. 52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: 53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it. Stephen was going on in his discourse (as it should seem by the thread of it) to show that, as the temple,… Read the whole commentary →

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